startup issues

Just put together a brand new computer, Windows installed fine (running x64 bit Ultimate), everything loaded up fine the first time. Then I installed the driver and utility for my network card, and everything seemed fine til I got an internet connection, at which point it froze, and the only...

Hi Guys, I have a Dell Laptop and left it open at a party. Afterward I noticed that it I cannot start windows anymore. Somehow someone enabled Microsoft bitLocker on my computer. When I start the computer the following message shows up: " Dell MeiaDirect Express cannot access your hard drive...

As a new member, let me say, I have searched the forum for a solution to my problem, and discovered many great ideas, but none have fixed my problem. I'm running Win 7 Home Premium on a home built desktop with an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB, and an AMD processor. It only has a single 160g HD...

Hi I have a little problem since 1 month. My Win7 is very very slow to boot, about 5 really minuts.. i don't know why because I use a ghost from november 2009 and the problem is still here. If i push F8 to see the options, and choose for example "enable boot logging" it starts normally and...

I am getting blue screens shortly after startup and sleep mode wakeup, It has been doing it since day one. I have replaced EVERY thing on the computer except the cpu and the motherboard and still the same problem. It is a new custom build, the specs are: I7 920 cpu ASUS P6T SE mb KINGSTON DDR3...

Hi there I have had seven installed on my laptop for quite a while now, and haven't had any problems until now. Recently it was abruptly shutdown by an accident, and now it wont do anything. It boots perfectly normally, but as soon as I do anything, the cursor turns into that blue ring...

Hello, Please help! I recently upgraded my HP Pavilion dv9408nr notebook from Vista to Win 7. I did not backup or save any Vista drivers (I know) but the system seems to run fine until it's time to start or restart. The lights turn on and off repeatedly until I've had enough and power it off...

Hello, Lately, I've been getting error messages every time I start my Windows. These error messages are related to the Windows Media Player. I know this because if I right click on the icon of the message on the taskbar, it says WMP something. And also the icon looks exactly like the Burn icon...

Lost power last night... so windows was not shut down properly. Upon startup, I lost some services - wireless, print services, some programs not running, etc... I went online to search for solutions. At some point I reached a 'windows validation' failure screen (in retrospect, some...

Hey there, I have looked everywhere online to find a solution for this problem but nothing seems to be working. After logging in successfully most programs startup but I cant seem to run any applications for about half an hour. The system seems to respond slow until half an hour later. One...

Hi, I got windows 7 installed last year along with a new computer in december. Before I took the computer home, the guy assembling my computer offered to install OpenOffice.org 3.1 (en-us) so that i had a word process until i got word2007. When I started up the computer at home, the problems...

Can someone please take a peek at my bootlog below and let me know if there is anything that may be causing the boot time to be VERY SLOW. It's so slow that you need to measure how long it takes on a geological timeline (you know the one that has a caveman on one end and an astronaut on the...

After every reboot I loose all my restore points because "the shadow copy memory was not expanded on time" (translated from german). I have Win7 Home Premium and set the available disk space for shadow copies to 100% (1TB). it also slows down the startup by more than two minutes. here's the...

Hi, I don't remember when this started, but whenever I boot my laptop it asks for my permission to run update.exe just after the start-up. When i click on Yes to allow it, it shows the following error message: "Run-time error 339: Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not...

Okay, first off, I posted on the windows site about 5 hours ago and no one has helped me yet. I'm going to post exactly what I posted there and all the steps and actions I have taken and the consequences. Woke up this morning, turned on my computer and now for some reason, it won't load...

Hi About 3 weeks ago i did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate x64 over vista, and i have had several annoyances at times which never happened on vista. The first problem is a bit weird and i don't know what could cause it. Basically what happens is i would put my laptop to sleep and when i...

Hi, I recently did error checking and checked automatically fix file and system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and hit start more than once and it scheduled and so next time i started up it ran it. And it fixed all my problems but i had start or whatever more than...

Bought a Compaq laptop and have been using it for about 6 weeks, it came with window 7 pre installed. All well bar every 10 or so startups it would not bootup but would stick with blank screen. I would take out battery and restart then ok. now the problem ocuurs everytime I shut it down and only...

Hi guys, hope you all are well.. I stupidly installed 2x Operating Systems onto one partition, namely Win7 (which was already installed) and Xp...! Initially I had installed Xp onto a USB drive, which was a complete FAIL, met with blue screen after blue screen... so i decided i wanted to go...

I hav installed Windows 7 and previously had XP... wenever mi pc starts up the first problems I face is I cant select which OS I want to log in as mi keyboard driver is not loaded (dont knw y???) second thing I m havin trouble is I cant find the way to change the booting sequence in Win.7 so...